Fos protein induction in the medullary dorsal horn and first segment of the spinal cord by tooth-pulp stimulation in cats.

Abstract

Electrophysiological studies using the single neuron recording technique have led to the hypothesis that nociceptive neurons in the medullary dorsal horn (MDH) and the first segment of the spinal cord (C1) encode the stimulus intensity of noxious stimuli applied to the tooth pulp. The present study utilized the Fos protein technique in combination with… (More)